It is estimated the over five billion unique user credentials are circulating on Darknet forums, with cybercriminals offering to sell access to bank accounts as well as domain administrator access to corporate networks. Researchers discovered that more than 15 billion user credentials are in circulation, of which 5 billion username and password combinations do not have repeated credential pairs and have been advertised on underground forums only once, according to the recently issued report.[1]
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All organizations should consider working with a cyber threat intelligence firm to send test “Phishing” emails to random employees on a regular basis. This will test employee vulnerabilities to provide subsequent remediation plans. Training and instruction from cyber professionals are always cheaper than absorbing the costs of remediation, paying ransoms or having confidential data exposed or auctioned to the highest bidder.
Researchers at two security firms are tracking separate phishing camp
